Exam question 4 · Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is fo…

What was the nature of the disturbance which ruined the wedding garments?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nature, disturbance · What happens: be, ruin · To what, where: wedding garments

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1291 «Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is found, then Puck starts his pranks» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nature	det
4	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 disturbance	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 disturbance	det
7	disturbance	disturbance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nature	nmod
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 ruined	nsubj
9	ruined	ruin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 disturbance	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 garments	det
11	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 garments	compound
12	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ruined	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the nature of the disturbance						tree rules
2	ruin	past	the disturbance	the wedding garments					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garment=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The loud noise of a cart rolling over the wooden bridge into the town square

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 noise	det
2	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 noise	amod
3	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 cart	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cart	det
6	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 noise	nmod
7	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 noise	acl
8	over	over	ADP	_	11 bridge	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bridge	det
10	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bridge	amod
11	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rolling	obl
12	into	into	ADP	_	15 square	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 square	det
14	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 square	compound
15	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rolling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	gerund	the loud noise of a cart not said here			the wooden bridge		into the town square	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme over bridge=Source into square=Trajectory
2	noise		a cart						nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

A sudden loud crick crack noise that came from the church tower above

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 noise	det
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 noise	amod
3	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 noise	amod
4	crick	crick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crack	compound
5	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 noise	compound
6	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 noise	acl:relcl
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 tower	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tower	det
11	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tower	compound
12	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
13	above	above	ADV	_	8 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a sudden loud crack noise			the church tower		above property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tower=Initial_Location

Option 3

A sudden loud thud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 thud	det
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thud	amod
3	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thud	amod
4	thud	thud	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A loud crick crack noise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 noise	det
2	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 noise	amod
3	crick	crick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crack	compound
4	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 noise	compound
5	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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